Well-Schooled in Murder
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780553070002
- Type
- novel
About this book
Well-Schooled in Murder (1990) is the third entry, 464 pages, deepening the psychological weight George gives victims and suspects alike as Lynley and Havers's partnership continues to develop.
Key facts about Well-Schooled in Murder
Elizabeth George wrote Well-Schooled in Murder, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1990. The book has 464 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553070002 to find the main one.
Well-Schooled in Murder is book 3 of 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with A Great Deliverance (1988). A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 September 2025.
Additionally, Elizabeth George writes Whidbey Island as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest published Elizabeth George book on file, from 23 September 2025.
About Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George is an American author best known for the Inspector Thomas Lynley series of British crime novels, an unusual case of an American writer working almost entirely within English settings and class dynamics. See every Elizabeth George book in order.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
Well-Schooled in Murder is book 3 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Payment in Blood. It is followed by A Suitable Vengeance. See the full Inspector Lynley reading order.
Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, is a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be minor aristocracy — a premise Elizabeth George uses to explore British class friction from the inside, especially through his prickly, working-class partner DS Barbara Havers, whose resentment of and eventual loyalty to Lynley is one of the great slow-burn partnerships in crime fiction. George, an American writing English detective fiction with unusual authority, builds each novel as a dense, doorstop-length literary mystery…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781859988688
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553070002